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If you're stuck in an endless group text and cannot get out, here's a way to tamper down the vibration notifications. In iOS 7, go to each contact in your "Contacts" list who are apart of the group text, click "Edit" on the respective contacts, and then change the "Vibration" option (just below "Text Tone") to "None". This should prevent their texts only from triggering your phone to vibrate. So next time you're in the middle of an important meeting and all your friends decide now is the time to talk about whatever happened to Jude Law, or how hangry they are, your pocket won't sound like an idling engine.

I use DND whenever I get the chance. Unfortunately this is my work phone too, so I need to be alerted to other people's texts, just not my friends immediately. Plus the phone would still vibrate if they called due to an emergency. It's a decent compromise given we can't escape these group texts yet.

If you go to settings > messages, there is an option to turn off group messaging. I've never turned them off so I'm not sure what that does or if it would solve the problem, but maybe someone who has tried it can weigh in.

If I am included in a text with people I don't know, I just block those numbers.

If all the other recipients are people you know and communicate with, then it's not going to work out. But if you don't know them and you don't care about their opinion, blocking them is an easy option.